Shared Photo: Great Grandpa Spencer's home

Question

I wanted to share this family photo of Charles Spencer with the community. Location: Fairview, Cuyahoga County Ohio. Date: unknown.

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Comments

Must have been a popular floor plan in Ohio - just like my childhood home, give or take!

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I really enjoy looking at this marvelous photo, there are so much life in the photo with children and growing people.

What and amazing house , love the old children wagon in the front with a little child in.

Thanks for sharing this great photo

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Thanks for the notice... when My Mother Alberta  and her brother John were small Charle's Daughter  Ruth Sophia, brought them to live at this home with  her husband Hugo. I found them recorded in the 1940 census together.

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Thank you for Sharing the story. It is always nice when there is a story, that you know now, when you have this amazing photo.

Must say it is a lovely house your mother and her brother came to live in.

Did you ever visit this house? Does it still exists

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i never knew about it when i was a kid and recently my aunt told me it had been taken down for some public building ... possibly parking =-(

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More tha a few houses were picked out and built from plans in a Sears Roebuck catalog, and I  might add that the plans seemed more unique than some of our recent tract houses! I have a set of hours plan intended for building in Kansas City, easy to send time musing about what it must have been like growing up in them.

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You know I was going to mention that about Sears.  How many folks even know that they had such plans and you could purchase them?? My Grand Mother Spencer who married a Plas  lived in a house that was definitely from Sears we even had the original drawings of the floor plan etc...

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The Sears pictures I have are really attractive, porticos that are drive through, turret rooms, who knew?

Answer 1

How sad to remove a marvelous house like this for parking... It happen so often in the old time, after so many started getting a private car. so it is not possible to visit and se the house your family grow up in. How lucky you have this wonderful photo, as a memory.

You must treasure it

Thank you for share your story